[NOTE] Win10 - get the full message for "Unauthorized changes blocked"

Event Viewer > Application and Services > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Defender > Operational

Get the full message using PowerShell:

> Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{logname=’Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational’; id=1123} | Select-Object Message

I added "C:\ubin\" to PATH, and added all custom BAT files there.  Create 'blockedmessage.bat' as following and add to C:\ubin\ :

@echo off
REM *** KK-20191203
REM *** list full blocked message by defender
powershell -command "Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{logname='Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational'; id=1123} | Select-Object Message"

[Quantum Computer] Getting Started: QISKit SDK

Qiskit is developed by IBM.
https://qiskit.org/

This note is to show how to install Qiskit on Win10, run the simulator locally.

Installation note
https://developer.ibm.com/code/2017/05/17/developers-guide-to-quantum-qiskit-sdk/
https://qiskit.org/documentation/install.html

Requirements:

• Windows
• Anaconda

Create environment

> conda create --name qiskit python=3.7
> activate qiskit

Install Qiskit

> pip install qiskit
> pip install qiskit-terra[visualization]


Unlike QDK, Qiskit is Python, which is a big plus -- no need to learn new language.

[Quantum Computer] Getting Started: QDK

This is just a note on installing QDK, Python, Jupyter on Windows.

QDK is Microsoft Quantum Development Kit.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit

Installation steps are here, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/install-guide/

But I had some minor trouble installing it, so this is the note.

Requirements:

• Win10
• Anaconda

[1] Install .NET package, 2.2.0

First, check if you have DOT NET package installed.  Do where dotnet and see if dotnet command is available.

If not, go to this site and install 2.2.  It's Important that current QDK requires 2.2.x version.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core

Check if you have the right version:

> dotnet --list-sdks
2.2.402 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
3.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

As shown above, I have 2.2.402 installed.

Now install .NET tools:

> dotnet tool install -g Microsoft.Quantum.IQSharp
> dotnet iqsharp install

[2] Anaconda + Python + Jupyter

Run Anaconda and create environment, 'qsharp':

> conda create --name qsharp
> conda activate qsharp

Create workspace directory

> cd /d e:\dev\code\
> mkdir qsharp
> cd qhsharp

And install jupyter and qsharp

> conda install jupyter
> pip install qsharp
> conda install ipykernel

Check if qsharp kernel is installed:

> jupyter kernelspec list
Available kernels:
  python3    C:\opt\Anaconda3\envs\qsharp\share\jupyter\kernels\python3
  iqsharp    C:\ProgramData\jupyter\kernels\iqsharp

Run jupyter notebook:

> jupyter notebook


This is just to show you installing QDK with right .NET version with Jupyter.  Jupyter can be utilize the notebook, but I don't see much benefit of using Jupyter in this case.  VS or VS code would be better choice as you still have to write the code in Q#.

There are a lot of docs and examples of Q# -- this is a big plus for learning.
Next time, I'll put some notes on VS, VS code and Q#.

[Quantum Computer] Getting Started: Microsoft LIQUi|>

There are several quantum computer simulators and programming environments.  I'm experimenting/learning with a few -- and this is a note on installation and learning resources.

For Microsoft LIQUi|>, I actually experiment with it a couple of years ago, back in 2017.  I'm going through my note and putting some information on this posting, before I put some note on other quantum computer simulation and programming tools I recently toying around with.

First read these pages,

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/10/11/getting-started-with-liqui-and-quantum-computing/

[2] Microsoft LIQUi|> (Liquid), https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-integrated-quantum-operations-liqui/

Installation

On Windows, Visual Studio (community version works fine), and uses LIQUi|> own language and F#.  It also support Ubuntu and OSX, but I only tried on Windows 10.

See the installation steps here, http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/getting-started/

Essentially, just two installation steps:

Step 1, install VS community version, https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
Step 2, download ZIP from this GitHub, extract and run, https://github.com/StationQ/Liquid

My impression on this was -- installation and running were simple, but hard to learn, and not much learning resources.  I don't recommend using this.  Next posting, I'll post about other more recent simulators and SDKs that seems easier to learn.

REFERENCES

• Liquid functions - http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/docs/html/a6076d35-ee7e-167b-2eac-3d47c563f37e.htm
• LIQUi|> design, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/liqui-a-software-design-architecture-and-domain-specific-language-for-quantum-computing/
• http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/docs/LIQUiD.pdf
• https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12911/Quantum-Computing
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/10/11/getting-started-with-liqui-and-quantum-computing/
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/10/30/microsofts-software-for-quantum-computing-liqui/